Description

LATHOM

SD40NE HALL LANE
663-1/5/59 (East side)
11/08/72 Ormskirk Lodge with attached screen
wall and gate pier
(Formerly Listed as:
ORMSKIRK
LATHOM
Ormskirk Lodge and Lathom Lodge
(with attached wall and remaining
gatepost))

GV II

Entrance lodge to Lathom Park, with attached screen wall and
gate pier. c.1730, altered. By Giacomo Leoni. Sandstone ashlar
and coursed squared sandstone, slate roof. Gate pier adjacent
to drive, with concave quadrant walls to front and rear, lodge
attached to the latter. The lodge is octagonal in plan, 2
storeys, with a plinth, rusticated ground floor, 1st-floor
band and altered eaves; a square-headed doorway in the south
side, with Gibbs surround and altered door; tall windows at
ground floor with altered glazing (18-pane top-hung
casements), and square 9-pane windows at 1st floor. Chimney
and small C20 extension to rear. The high screen walls are
ramped up at the south end to meet the gate pier, which has
pilasters with emphatic frost-worked bands, a pediment, and a
round-headed niche with a keystone. Forms group with Lathom
Lodge (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4543909175

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585118

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